Re: [xml] xmlChar * to char *

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:30:37AM +0000, Chris Peto wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:41:15PM +0100, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:59:16AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > >   an xmlChar * has a stricter semantic than char *, that's why
> > > > there is a macro to do this in one direction and not in the other one.
> > > 
> > > But gcc 4 warns about xmlChar * being passed to functions like strcpy; I
> > > think the OP's question was whether there are any other solution than
> > > casting.
> > 
> >   no, just cast.
> 
> I did a cast and still come up with a string that start with 0xc2.  My original 
> character in xsd was &#xB0;.  By parsing I get, even after cast, c2b0 string.  
> What must I do?

Learn, really if you're working for a web development company asking this
kind of question should really scare your customers ... I expect there is
some confusion on your side, a pointer cast *never* change the pointed memory.
Things you should read are libxml2 encoding page:

    http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

and pages pointed by it giving I18N details and the UTF-8 spec you seems 
to ignore:

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2279.html

Daniel

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